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Thursday, 16 April 2015

Big names confirmed for The Night Manager

The BBC have announced a cast of huge names for The Night Manager which is due for broadcast next year.

David Harewood (Homeland), Neil Morrissey (Line Of Duty), Katherine Kelly (Mr Selfridge) and Tobias Menzies (The Honourable Woman) have been announced to join the star-studded cast of the television adaptation of John le Carré’s novel which started filming last month.

Co-produced by AMC with BBC One and The Ink Factory, the latest names to feature in the international production join previously announced stars Hugh Laurie (House), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Olivia Colman (Broadchurch), Tom Hollander (Rev), Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby) and Academy Award® winning director Susanne Bier (In a Better World).

Other names announced to appear in the espionage drama include BAFTA nominees Adeel Akhtar (Utopia) and Natasha Little (Wolf Hall), as well as Jonathan Aris (Sherlock) and Hannah Steele (Wolf Hall).

A contemporary interpretation of le Carré’s 1993 novel – and the first television adaptation of a le Carré novel in more than 20 years – The Night Manager mini-series will bring together love, loss and revenge in a complex story of modern criminality. The eagerly anticipated series follows former British soldier Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston) who is recruited by an intelligence operative named Burr (Colman) to navigate the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie), which includes girlfriend Jed (Debicki) and an associate named Corcoran (Hollander), Pine must himself become a criminal.

The series is currently in filming and is expect to hit BBC One next year.